This is just a request really. When the day comes that the DK2 is no longer functional under current drivers, can we get an assurance that it will fail to upgrade to that driver thus not bricking the product i paid for?
i realise that game support will get more and more flaky and that is down to the developers and out of oculus's control. i accept this fully. I also accept that Oculus want to sell CV1's, However i have no means of upgrading to a CV1, my financial situation is not what it was a couple of years ago and its going to be a long time until i can even think about affording one. The increased price was expected but pushed it beyond my means.
All i want is for the driver that kills it to say - Sorry you have a DK2 and this driver will not be compatible so you gotta stay on the one you're on. When devs don't support it in their new games then i know it will be dead (Other than the games i play now!) but i don't want to lose VR until i have to at which point i will probably stop gaming completely as there is no way back to flat screen gaming now! I just dont want it deliberately killed. And yes i know.. developer version.. not consumer etc but i paid good cash for it and it works perfectly. I can't accept that it will be bricked at the end of the year when i could just stay on a previous driver until i'm rich and famous etc lol
Totally with you and understand but and this is a big but. I'm sure oculus will see it as a "developer" unit as you said and that is what it was sold as/for. I bet they don't give it a second thought when further runtime/updates come out 😞 my opinion only.
A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.
It will end up being a relic, but there is no reason you can't load old drivers and run things outside the store indefinitely. Oculus has promised the DK2 will work until the end of 2016. After that I fully expect them to release an update to the store and break it (Otherwise, why even give us a time frame?)
Anybody who bought one agreed they where a developer, it should be fine to keep developing with for quite a while, as for playing consumer software, there is consumer hardware for that.
Seeing that Oculus decided to not implement the IPD change for the DK2 in the latest software versions and we have this annoying DK2 is unsupported message in Oculus Home I'm betting that Oculus will just cut the support completely by the end of this year and of course Oculus Home will auto-update to a version which will not work at all with the DK2 so we will have no choice but to buy the CV1. Which I would probably buy anyway because I like the technology but it would be great if I was not forced by the greed of the company and I could upgrade in my own timeframe.
provided they give us a means to roll back drivers. if no, dk2 will be bricked eventually. The current mechanism forces you to get the latest driver at all times
I dont think the dk2 is that different to the cv1 that it can get bricked..the screen is quite good. Computer technology is not that advanced either. I cannot see how a firmware update will brick the dk2..They must be a massive share of peope buying from the oculus store who own a dk2 only as well
If they did this:- they certainly would be shooting themselves in the foot
